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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Inverness or Palm Beach?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Inverness for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Inverness’s own page.

Choose Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Inverness 20, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Palm Beach 47: Palm Beach leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Palm Beach 58: Inverness leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Palm Beach 55: Inverness leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Palm Beach 32: Inverness leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Palm Beach 12: Inverness leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Palm Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Inverness
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Inverness in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
69 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Inverness has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Inverness's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessPalm Beach
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m2 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessPalm Beach
City population47,3809,245
People per km²2,289322
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.